{Spotlight Project} Shery Plays with Bloom Sketches, Gift Wrapping Paper, and Twinkling H2Os

Hey, everyone! It's Shery and it's my turn to do a spotlight project. I actually did several mixed media projects (tags, a canvas panel, a card, and a scrapbook layout) because I wanted to get a lot of use out of the roll of gift wrapping paper I found. For this post, I'll share the tags I created plus a teaser on the second (because I have a video for it that I'm still editing and won't get done before this post goes live). I'll share the card and layout in my next post :o)

While I was rummaging through my supplies, I came across several rolls of gift wrapping paper I bought a couple of years ago at Target. They had a newsprint design and I knew they'd be perfect for my projects. (They were in the dollar bin and thought I may not see them again so I bought them out.) They're great for backgrounds and that's what I used them for in my tags (and subsequent projects).

To create my trio of mixed media tags, I used stamps in the newly released Bloom Sketches, manila tags, gel medium, gesso (white and transparent), Distress and archival inks, chalk ink, Twinkling H2Os, a distressing tool, scrap burlap ribbon, and stapler. 

Step 1

I adhered gift wrapping paper onto the manila tags with gel medium.

Step 2

I mixed white and transparent gesso (both by Liquitex)

and used an old credit card to apply it unevenly onto my tags.

Step 3

With a TH distressing tool, I distressed the edges of the tags

then sponged Distress ink (black soot) .

Step 4

I stamped the poppies in jet black archival ink.

Step 5

I colored the poppies with Twinkling H2Os (sweet alfalfa, mango mamba,

blue zircon, and persimmon). [Note: In the video for the mixed media canvas

panel, I show how I watercolored the poppies -- I basically used the

same techniques on both projects.]

Here's a close up of one of the tags. (I love the shimmer that the

Twinkling H2Os create!)

Step 6

I stamped the sentiments on the tags using VersaMagic chalk ink (midnight black) and finished the tags by stapling black burlap ribbon scraps I found in my stash.

Before I end this post, here's a preview of the mixed media canvas panel I did after I finished the tags. I'll have an extra post tomorrow for this project with the video. So I hope you'll come back then if you'd like to see how I did this one from start to finish. Here's the video showing how I made this canvas from start to finish :o)

Thanks so much for visiting. Hope my project inspired you! 

Shery